Baghdad Province | |||||||||
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| 1508–1534 | |||||||||
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| Status | Province of the Safavid Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Baghdad | ||||||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||||||
| Government | Province | ||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
• Established | October 1508 | ||||||||
| December 1534 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Iraq | ||||||||
The Baghdad Province (Persian: ولایت بغداد, romanized: Velāyat-e Baghdād) was a province of the Safavid Empire, centred on the territory of the present-day Iraq.[1] Baghdad was the provincial capital and the seat of the Safavid governors.[2]
In October 1508, Shah Ismail entered into Baghdad. He appointed as governor of Iraq and Baghdad a certain Khadem Beg Talish.[3] After the Shah took Baghdad, the city and its environs remained in Safavid hands until the Ottomans took the area in 1534 during the Campaign of the Two Iraqs.[4]
- ^ Floor 2001, pp. 97–98.
- ^ Nasiri 2008, p. 157.
- ^ Zaryab 2006.
- ^ Matthee 2006.